Great Outdoors: Catch a glimpse of the elusive mink

1:26 PM,
Dec. 6, 2012

Written by

Rick Marsi

You may not think brown is a beautiful color. Then again, you aren't slinking around in a world where that color might just save your life.

To be brown in a brown world makes sense if you find yourself down on the food chain a bit. Blotchy brown, streaked with buff, tinged with gray, flecked with off-white - a mixed bag of somber shades seems even more advantageous.

It certainly is at this time of year. This is camouflage season: December until the snow flies. Things will change when snow sticks and remains for the winter. Then, brown will stand out as the creatures that wear it move over the snow to ...